So what about this 1974 quarter ?

Is this a regular coin also ?

 

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Looks like a normal Quarter.
A bit of a Misaligned Die Strike.
You can see a small False Double Rim to the right of the word LIBERTY. But it's nothing major.

 

Just a quarter


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A normal circulation quarter with circulation wear and damage. It's a spender.

 

What must some people's lives be like to hunt these kinds of things out? No knock on you in particular @fadl, but there's a gazillion people doing this and I don't get it.

 

Whoever put it in their mind that it makes sense to post pictures of every coin they get in change should be shot.

 

Isn't that kind of drastic?

 

Yes it is. But is it any more drastic than blaming Janet Yellen for everything?

 

I think it might be the obscurity that draws the mind to it, I do it my self Looking for errors

 

Why is everyone so harsh?
I already responded in the 2nd post.
It is a Misaligned Die Strike
Minor Error.. Look at closely

You should all be over at Rare-Tims threads and let him have it!

 

Rare Tim should definitely be shot.

 

It's the new fad. It replaced be the "AT" and "NT" fad. And if you're PCGS, "QT." And if you're some kind of intellectual, "MA" (for "market acceptable"). Now that most young collectors have caught on to that racket, the TPGs got all the mileage they could out of those arbitrary distinctions, and are no longer conditioning collectors to collect tarnish based on those arbitrary distinctions. Thus, while the collectors who can't quit a bad habit are still collecting by the arbitrary distinctions, nobody else is. Instead, they're looking for "double dyes," because they read in Wikipedia or somewhere they could be worth millions if only adorned with the right expert classification on them.

 

Minor error with fingerprints all over it.

 

It's in remarkably good condition for a '74 quarter. It looks like a solid mid-range XF with only minor damage. Only about 1 in 100 '74 quarters will be in better condition.

I'd guess it sat in a horde or a mint set until around 2005 when it was released because of the misaligned dies. Circulation grinds these coins up pretty fast and very few escape this meatgrinder even briefly.

 

People trying to find alternative ways to gain some wealth for a nominal effort. It's 'just business' is the term I've heard used repetitively. Kind of the same thing Wall Street does but on a smaller scale perhaps.

 

Harsh defines some. Goes with the hobby I suppose.

 

That's my question - How did this idea get in their heads? Wikipedia didn't just jump up and mug them. Somebody had to put the notion in their noggins that ANYTHING different about a coin is valuable. Who is it? I want his head on a platter.

 

Kurt, maybe they just tired of, "Geeze, I love the toning on this coin--I hope it's not AT--it better not be--then I won't love it anymore, I'll hate it!!!" Then the "experts" come on and tell them how the toning betrays the Sunnywood progression rules for NT, or how it's not AT, but it could be QT, but then it wouldn't be MA, anyway...

Nowadays, they stumble into here like drunken sailors, what are they reading about? Ah, I dunno. But I think it's these new "experts" giving them all these crazy ideas. In other words, they found another way to pick our pockets, so expect this to last us for awhile...

 

This is called "coin collecting".

People who like to collect one of everything often like varieties. People who collect coins and like one of everything often collect die varieties.

Of course most people consider the coins in circulation to be nothing but worthless junk but many newbies don't understand why. They hear that there are far more valuable coins and more of them in circulation than ever before and they'd like to know how to find them and whether they already did.